"You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster."

“Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.”

“As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.”

Source : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

“To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.”

“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!”

“We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.”

“I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.”

“Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Final Country”, p.322, Vintage

“Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.”